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peach

/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/noun, adjective

peach is a noun meaning “Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-A-C-H and has one syllable (peach), and it appears 5.9 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of peach is peaches.

What does peach mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

  2. 2

    Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.

  3. 3

    A light yellow-red colour.

  4. 4

    informalA particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

  5. 5

    Buttock or bottom.

  6. 6

    obsoleteA particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to the color peach.

  2. 2

    Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

noun

as Peach
  1. 1

    USinformalA native or resident of Georgia in the United States.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo inform on someone; turn informer.

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo inform against.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce peach?

  • /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/
  • [ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ]

Peach has one syllable, split peach in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-peach.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of peach

  • peaches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • more peach comparative
  • most peach superlative
  • peaching participle, present
  • peached participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is peach?

Peach appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Peach in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpêcher (tree), pêche (fruit)
GermanPfirsichbaum (tree), Pfirsich (fruit)
Portuguesepessegueiro (tree), pêssego (fruit), cor pêssego (colour)
Spanishduraznero, durazno, melocotonero, melocotón (tree)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does peach come from?

From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).